Word: self-portrait
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...substance, Generation X paints a fairly bleak self-portrait. The narrator drones on about his inane life, his inane friends and their inane lives, and his own pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact...
...Rothenberg, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray or Vija Celmins? Where are those formidable senior talents, the two Louises, Bourgeois and Nevelson, without whom no account of the post-Surrealist vein in America can be adequate? And what about -- but enough, enough already. One can see why there's a big self-portrait by Philip Guston, full of weltschmerz and peeking nervously over the top of a wall. He must have been expecting Norman of Beijing, not the other...
...October 16, 1967 letter from Netanyahu to his brotherBenjamin, printed in Self-Portrait of a Hero: The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu, reveals the extent to which he immersed himself in life at Harvard...
...stylized, while his later pieces are colorful non-objective works. In "Menacing Head" (1905) a man stares from the frame with an intense gare, a small weasel-like animal perched on top of his head (although the fact is similar to Klee's this work is not considered a self-portrait). This early work foreshadows his later exploration of abstract visual symbolism. As the gallery notes state, Klee uses the two components to "expose human malvolence...
...Tobias Wolff reflects that "memory becomes an actor on its own. You try to make it tell the truth, and that's the best you can do." He is talking about his 1989 memoir, This Boy's Life, justly praised for the dead-on honesty of its scruffy boyhood self-portrait...